Whiffenpoofs, Yale University, records 1904-2009

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Whiffenpoofs, Yale University, records 1904-2009

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0156

The records consist of song arrangements, sheet music, audio recordings, membership lists, advertisements, clippings, photographs, posters, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia of the Yale Whiffenpoofs.

28 linear feet (21 boxes, 3 folio folders)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351941

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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The Whiffenpoofs, a Yale student singing group, was founded in 1909 by four members of the University Quartet: George Pomeroy (1909), James M. Howard (1909), Meade Minnigerode (1910), Carl A. Lohmann (1910), and Denton Fowler (1909). The founders took their name from a fish story told by Joe Cawthorn, a popular comedian of the time. In a musical show called "Little Nemo," he described a fabulous creature which he caught by boring a hole in the lake and putting cheese around the hole. The Whiffen...